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Job Description

Drive and control farm equipment to till soil and to plant, cultivate, and harvest crops. May perform tasks, such as crop baling or hay bucking. May operate stationary equipment to perform post-harvest tasks, such as husking, shelling, threshing, and ginning.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 45-2091.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 30,430.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 14.00
Currently, there are 28,700 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Agricultural Equipment Operators”.

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Tasks for “Machine Tender”

Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.

Related Technology & Tools

Gravity wagons
Forage tractors
Peanut dryers
Min-till cultivators
Tomato harvesters
Hay bale unrollers
Combine header transports
Hay balers
Farm tractors
Seed bins
Air drill seeders
Seed mixers
Hay bale loaders
Rotary hay rakes
Coulter rippers
Backhoes
All terrain vehicle ATV plows
All terrain vehicle ATV sprayers
Nurse tanks
Subsoilers
Min-till planters
Tractor guidance systems
Seed drills
Feed mixer wagons
Batch grain dryers
Shavings spreaders
Crop lifters
Post drivers
Continuous flow grain dryers
Subcompact tractors
Rotary hoes
Rock windrowers
Land finishers
Combine cylinders
All terrain vehicle ATV post hole diggers
Grain vacuums
Plows
Skid steer loaders
Hay bale accumulators
Pasture renovators
Silo spreaders
Manure scrapers
Grain heaters
Liquid ferilizer applicators
Combine grain headers
Threshers
Haybines
Auger wagons
Crop shredders
Hay bale spears
Skid sprayers
All terrain vehicle ATV seeders
Windrow inverters
Crop dividers
Chisel disks
Forage harvesters
Skid steer rock grapples
Grain combines
Grain augers
Bucket elevators
Telehandlers
Manure augers
Skid steer rotary tillers
Manure storage tanks
Forage boxes
Header carriers
Compact tractors
Manure separators
Bed shapers
Straw and chaff spreaders
Grain pumps
All terrain vehicle ATV manure spreaders
Field rollers
Hay bale stackers
Liquid storage tanks
Sprayer chassis
Coulter disks
Silage boxes
V hay rakes
Min-till drills
Chaff spreaders
Track tractors
Combine draper headers
Seed conveyors
Land levelers
Weed wipes
Silage mills
Peanut digger inverters
Seed vacuums
Land planes
Sprayer booms
Skid steer post pullers
Silage bins
Rotary tillers
Grain wagons
Hay tedders
All terrain vehicle ATV discs
Skid steer post hole diggers
Silage baggers
Novariant AutoFarm RTK AutoSteer
Dry bulk storage tanks
Windrowers
Air reels
Silage wrappers
Transfer augers
Skid steer tree cutters
2-point sprayers
Manure spreaders
Seed tenders
Grain drills
Power winches
Offset disks
Grain bin aeration fans
Peanut dump carts
Combine headers
Compost turners
Peanut diggers
Peanut harvesters
Hay bale elevators
Disk rippers
Hay bale feeders
Swath turners
Horizontal feed mixers
Mower conditioners
Lime spreaders
Grass seeders
Garlic harvesters
Wheel loaders
Silage distributors
Utility vehicles
Coulter drills
Field cultivators
Ditchers
Row crop cultivators
Seed strippers
Hay bale shredders
Tandem disks
Mist blowers
Peanut digger shakers
Hammermills
Hay bale compressors
Land scrapers
All terrain vehicles ATV
Forklifts
Skid steer hay bale spears
Hay bale wrappers
Tower grain dryers
Air carts
Chisel plows
Feed conveyors
Silage feeders
All terrain vehicle ATV harrows
Feed grinders
Self-propelled sprayers
Hay bale forks
Seed scales
Air seeders
Litter spreaders
Seed dryers
Forage wagons
Cargo trucks
Stump grinders
All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
Skid steer post drivers
Fertilizer spreaders
Silage wagons
3-point sprayers
Harrow baskets
Bedding hippers
Portable sprayers
Grass drills
Land rollers
Fertilizer blenders
Flat-ended shovels
Roller packers
Auger movers
Flotation sprayers
Seed hoppers
Forage blowers
Manure chopper pumps
Manure injection systems
Soybean combine harvesters
Hay bale conveyors
Hay conditioners
Granular applicators
Post hole diggers
Hay bale movers
Hay bale trailers

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